Worst lubricant?

[dfariswheel]

I have to ask about the peanut butter, lard and butter.

How do you know this?

When you've been a gunsmith long enough, you'll see some strange stuff.

The doer in the peanut butter case considered that there is peanut oil and if you open a jar of peanut butter you do see oil. Oil is oil.
Ergo; lacking a good grease, peanut butter could be used to temporarily lubricate a pistol.

Lard was sometimes used by old timers to lubricate a tap or die, so obviously it should lubricate a gun.

Crisco used to be used as a bullet lubricant and chamber sealer for black powder revolvers. It was okay unless it was hot weather then it melted and ran out. However, since it lubricated bullets, why not the guns action?

The butter I never learned the reason for. However, I can tell you that real butter smells bad after it's been in there for a while and turns rancid. Also, some real better is salted. Salt rusts guns.

 

[TAROMAN]

Guess I'll have to try bacon fat...

..just imagine the aroma...

 

[Smithaddict]

My vote for the worst oil is for Lucas gun oil. That **** gummed up my gun so much the next day that it was inoperable. I had to completely disassemble, clean and oil it with something else.

 

[joehotpiscopo]

i hate CLP haha absolutely hate it. bought a tweeny bottle for $2.99 at dicks once. lubed my glock up. next day she was bone dry. it also collected a ton of dirt, grit and lint *CC gun* in a 24 hour period.

i tend to use Rem oil alot. keeps it viscosity well

I wonder if you got a "bad" bottle of CLP. Did you shake it well prior to use? I use it on all my firearms and it NEVER dries up

 

[wlmccann]

WD40 is absolutely the worst thing that can be applied to anything with moving parts. The carrier evaporates and leaves a brown varnish like coating. Took me years to figure out the brown hard coating I would find in customer guns was the result of years of WD40 being sprayed into them. I once tried to keep some flat steel stock I use for making parts from rusting. I put the stuff in a coffee can and covered it by pouring WD40 from a gallon can in until the stock was covered. Couple of months later I couldn't have gotten the individual pieces of stock apart with a sledge hammer. Only thing I have found that will more or less disolve it is soaking in the expensive Carburator cleaner found at auto parts stores. The stuff seems impervious to lacquer thinner, mineral spirits, various firearms solvents, oil, kerosene, gasoline, denatured alcohol, acetone, etc..

 

[gwpercle]

I have had Break Free clp gum up the action on Smith and Wesson revolvers and the worse gum up was in a 1911 Schmidt-Ruben K11. That stuff required a total dissasembly of the K11 action and bolt before it worked right. Now these guns were in storage and possibly thats why the break free gummed up.

It's been my experience that not one product is good for every application , so you need products for each different job and you need to use the right stuff for the job.

I have used both WD40 and 3 in 1 oil, but each has its place and use. I never noticed Remoil's objectional smell and thought it to be a good light oil... it has never shown a tendency to gum or harden. WD40 doesn't gum either but it evaporates... it is a good penetrating oil , its just not good for long term use .

I guess the search for that one magic product that does it all still goes on.... ....gary